#Celtic #MythologyMonday for #InternationalKissingDay: `A late (16th–18th century) version of the goddess of sovereignty through whose right a king could rule in #Ireland, the spéir-bhean (sky woman) was depicted by bards of the time as a beautiful young woman, possibly from the #Otherworld, who wandered the roads searching for the land’s true leader. Her name was sometimes given as Cathleen ni Houlihan, sometimes is Roisin Dubh or Dark Rosaleen. Sometimes she appeared as the Shan Van Vocht (Sean-bhean Bhocht), the “poor old woman,” who recalls the hag who turned young again when kissed by the rightful ruler. The most famous version of the spéir-bhean is found in William Butler Yeats’s play Cathleen ni Houlihan written for the revolutionary leader Maude Gonne.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
July 6th is International Kissing Day 
6 July is 
Odysseus kisses his native land, Jan Styka, 1901
